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| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Whiteangel1234: 2:25pm On May 12, 2023 |
I think you should focus and make it before sitting somebody else down and nagging At 29 yrs you with your university graduate is likely heading to become a failure also |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Tonnyray: 2:25pm On May 12, 2023 |
First deeply introspective thread I'm seeing on nairaland in quite a while. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by mariahAngel(f): 2:28pm On May 12, 2023 |
Bashman49:Help him with what? If you don't mind me asking... Did he ask for help in his post? If you have help to offer, the right person you should offer is the Op's brother (or the op even), don't you think so? |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by GodWrites: 2:28pm On May 12, 2023 |
Aurelius1:I don't want to call you mumu, but you behave like one. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Blendy77(f): 2:33pm On May 12, 2023 |
DownTime44:The truth is everyone in the same family will not have the same hustling spirit. How can someone be doing conductor work at his age? A smart conductor would have learnt how to drive by now and either be driving for someone or driving his own bus or even doing uber business. That guy is not smart and you cant keep pushing him when he's not ready to change. Sit down with him and have a heart to heart talk. Ask him what can he do? If he loves transport business so much let him go and learn driving then you look for hire purchase car that he can use for uber. He can learn other handwork like sewing, barbing etc. You too while waiting for a paid job, look for other side hussle you can add. You were a hustler before you went to school, please dont stop in the name of looking for job because no one knows where this country is leading to. You can also learn driving and start uber business, buying and selling and other business to put food food on your table. You guys should try as much as possible to make your mum happy otherwise mere thinking of her kids alone can increase her blood pressure. It is well. Will try and send you a DM to know what you studied and how I can help. God who sees how far you have struggled will make things easy for you |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by VTJN(m): 2:33pm On May 12, 2023 |
Mummyimbecile:Op himself need help. If you go through the post carefully you will realise OP work in a pure water factory which I'm sure won't earn more than 20-25k. The elder brother no do well. He's busy working as conductor without thinking of his life. Now he's a liability to the family, especially to the younger brother. I sincerely feel for the family |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by mariahAngel(f): 2:34pm On May 12, 2023 |
kacheezy:Hey God! What is that even supposed to mean? |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by adedayourt(m): 2:36pm On May 12, 2023 |
At his age, learning or studying might not be a viable option at the moment, but being a conductor for a long time he should be a good driver by now, seek help how to get a bus for him on hire purchase or help him get a driver job with an organization. That would help sustain him for the very least. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Fame1309(f): 2:37pm On May 12, 2023 |
GodWrites:Stop the blaiming, what we need at this point in time is solution to the problem at hand. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by seguno2: 2:39pm On May 12, 2023 |
DownTime44:It was not wrong for you to talk to your elder brother, for him to sit up and get his life together. Thanks for your testimony about free primary education in Lagos, which unfortunately is not available for every child despite the high IGR, oil revenue and loans by government on behalf of the people. Do you think you will be hustling in a pure water factory with your 2:1 if you enlighten enough people to expect more from the local and state governments? More employment of teachers for the free education of all children, more jobs to provide free basic healthcare and water supplies to every building? |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by mariahAngel(f): 2:41pm On May 12, 2023 |
juman:Do you know what it requires to be an Uber driver? It's not as easy as you state it o. It's not even as if Uber as a company have cars to lease out to whoever is willing. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by seguno2: 2:42pm On May 12, 2023 |
GodWrites:You are right about the parents being failures for having more children than they can cater for. He said that the children all had free basic education. Hawking is NOT child abuse, since the children feed there from. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by KonTagiousBull: 2:43pm On May 12, 2023 |
DownTime44:I almost cried when I was reading this..I had to stop.God will definitely see you through and bless you with something to help your family. You did the right thing by talking to your brother...God has given you to power and mantle to lead the lead the family in a way ..take it up and go ahead but don't use it in such a way that you belittle your brother. Joseph was the smallest....... |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by DownTime44(op): 2:45pm On May 12, 2023 |
Blendy77:Thank you so much ma'am. I sent a DM to your mail. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Smith414: 2:46pm On May 12, 2023 |
Olarewaju89:Many people may not understand you but brother I know what you mean, there’s this spirit that follows first born especially when they’re boys, it takes the grace of God, prayers from parents and a lot of discipline to make sure first sons don’t go astray, I’ve seen a lot from experience, his mom really needs to pray or do something about it else na so the guy brother go remain |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Igbokwechika101(m): 2:46pm On May 12, 2023 |
It's well.and you did nothing wrong by talking to him.i pray everything goes well to all the first son out there. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by NothingDoMe: 2:49pm On May 12, 2023 |
Stephen0mozzy:Well said 👏 |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by DownTime44(op): 2:49pm On May 12, 2023 |
zrocky:Alright sir. I will do exactly what you said. Thank you so much. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Dabesthing: 2:51pm On May 12, 2023*. Modified: 3:11pm On May 12, 2023 |
There are a lot of opportunities out there, that he can take advantage of, so all hope isn’t lost, tell him to go and learn how to ride bike if he doesn’t already know. After learning he should get a job as a dispatch rider with Gokada or any dispatch company, dispatch riders are in high demand and the monthly salary ranges from 60k - 80k. From there he can save some money and buy his own dispatch bike. Since he has been a conductor before then he must be familiar with lagos roads, so doing dispatch business wouldn’t be difficult for him. Tell your brother to stay strong things will be fine. If he can ride bicycle he can also do food delivery, and earn N500 - N600 per delivery, if he can do 10/day that’s 5k - 6k daily. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by chinchum(m): 2:51pm On May 12, 2023*. Modified: 4:38am On May 24, 2023 |
DownTime44:i am sorry to inform you that you have to focus on yourself for now. I am not saying you can't provide occassional assistance like when he was sick and you needed to buy medications for him. A mother with her toddler on a flight is always advise to fix her oxygen mask before assisting the toddler during a flight turmoil. You cant pull him out of the vicious cycle he is stuck in at this time; you have to improve yourself optimally to find a sustainable help you can provide him. You may advise he learns driving and seek hire purchase of tricycle for commercial transportation. It appears your brother is mentally fatigue and laid back which is a recipe for failure. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Fame1309(f): 2:52pm On May 12, 2023 |
GodWrites: |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Fame1309(f): 2:53pm On May 12, 2023 |
GodWrites:Are you a kid?all your comments are just childish, don't worry when you get older you will understand life better. That's life. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by mariahAngel(f): 2:53pm On May 12, 2023*. Modified: 1:38pm On May 13, 2023 |
VTJN:Life happens to some people. Also, where one grew up could make or mar someone's future. Imagine raising a child in a place where there are hardly any achievers -- no inspiration. The best thing their parents could've done was take them out of Ajegunle. The stories I've heard about that place and people who live there ehn...they say they're too laid back and unbothered. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by seanwilliam(m): 2:55pm On May 12, 2023 |
VTJN:dumb post by dumb human being. When a man and a woman are poor and in relationships , the woman is the understanding one Abi ?. Why is she not rich herself ? Do you know what it takes to house and feed a fellow human being as in a complete adult? Do you even know if the man was doing ok too before he met her? Or there was a turn in fate?. @ op, nobody has really provided any solution to your situation. You deeply know what to do to get out of this. Don’t let nairlanders whine u . And @38, you need not sugarcoat anything for him ( I know that he’s not lazy ) but trust me, there’s different between doing what works and what is right . Good luck ! |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by DownTime44(op): 2:55pm On May 12, 2023 |
OChimex:God forbid I involve myself or got anything to do with APC. I'm almost regretting why moving forward to further my education. After everything, there's nothing to show for it. I had wanted to consider NDA. I wrote the screening exam after JAMB and i was shortlisted for final training but couldn't make it to Kaduna. It really saddening my heart whenever i remember |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by Connected1: 2:56pm On May 12, 2023 |
DownTime44:I smell immaturity here. Dropping for something in such a situation is very foolish of you, so you think he's happy with his condition right? We were 8 or 9 (parents inclusive) living in a one room store, I used to blame my father while I was about 7 or 8 for not planning well, I did hawking of plantain and even sold my father's wares too, I did bricklayer work (as a helper/service), as I grew older I starting providing solutions instead of questioning life. I rent a flat and sorted a lot of financial bills, school fees, feeding et all (all these while avoiding women) and I discovered that my father's drinking habits were not spiritual as some fake pastors claimed. Don't go passing blames, since you went to school you were suppose to have more critical thinking abilities than what I am reading here. Provide solutions Fam. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by RomanGreen: 2:56pm On May 12, 2023*. Modified: 10:15pm On May 13, 2023 |
DownTime44:I wish your brother learnt driving during the period he was a conductor. Most guys with foresight and ambition do that such that once the opportunity comes, they become their own drivers perhaps on a hire purchase agreement and eventually become vehicle owners themselves. He's already old. I advise you guys get him to learn driving, after that ..do a higher purchase agreement. If he's dedicated, in 5 years max ..he will be a vehicle owner and life will definitely be better off for him |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by seanwilliam(m): 2:57pm On May 12, 2023 |
chinchum:a very underrated comment |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by DownTime44(op): 2:59pm On May 12, 2023 |
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| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by OChimex: 3:00pm On May 12, 2023 |
DownTime44:It’s okay man, no time to regret. Put away your certificate, go into the hustling field, find skill learn, or business learn. They apply with your certificate oo in case something fit mature. But enter street, fit try the Okada again. |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by udeh3(m): 3:00pm On May 12, 2023*. Modified: 5:27pm On May 12, 2023 |
Stephen0mozzy:Well, I work in an MEP firm as an Engineer. You can contact me for more discussion. He can learn plumbing or Electrical skills, even both and be sure of job security in any of the MEP firms if he's serious with his learning. For me, I'll suggest he try Electrical due to his age and lucrative aspect of the job. I'm a senior child and son too almost from same background as yours. So, I understand his position and feelings. He needs more encouragement and support, especially mentally Drop a mail via NL |
| Re: I Had Been Restless Having A Chat With My Elder Brother by JohnnA1: 3:02pm On May 12, 2023 |
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